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Updated: June 8, 2025
But ere it come, that doom of death which fills us with alarms, May Allah grant to me the boon of resting in thine arms! And if, in that supremest bliss, fate favors my design, And love is crowned, the lot of life contented I resign. O darling Zaida, blest is he, 'mid thousands, who can say That on that bosom, in those arms he for one moment lay!
David started slightly. "Zaida?" he asked, with a sigh of pity. "The monk who passed thee but now goes every year to the Place of Lepers with the caravan, for a brother of this order stays yonder with the afflicted, seeing no more the faces of this world which he has left behind.
Briefly David told him how Zaida was found upon her sister's grave. Kaid's face was turned away as he listened. "She spoke no word of me?" Kaid said at last. "To whom should she speak?" David asked gently. "But the amulet thou gavest her, set with one red jewel, it was clasped in her hand in death." Suddenly Kaid's anger blazed. "Now shall Achmet die," he burst out.
Finding Zaida, had he not told her of the voice, and had she not said: "In the desert all men are safe safe from themselves and safe from others; from their own acts and from the acts of others"? Were the lions, then, loosed upon him? Had he been betrayed?
"'That as this pipe belongs to me, as I have bought it and paid for it, I may break it to atoms if I choose, and nobody has a right to object. So saying, the pacha broke his pipe, and threw the fragments into the middle of the room. "'All very well, as far as a pipe goes, said the minister; 'but Osmin, but Zaida? "'Less than a pipe, said the dey gravely. "'How! less than a pipe!
'Tis love that from Granada's home has sent him thus to rove, And for the lovely Zaida he languishes with love The loveliest face that by God's grace the sun e'er shone above. From court and mart he lives apart, such is the King's desire; Yet the King's friend Alfaqui is the fair maiden's sire.
And many a Moorish girl was seen by revellers that night Or running in confusion or halting from affright; But no one saw fair Zaida, except by memory's sight; And Zaide in the darkness, with Muza as his guide, Hurried about the city; what a crowd was at their side! What racket, and what riot, what shout and prank and play!
The new queen was hailed with joy by the Christians, as her conversion was considered prophetic of the ultimate and complete success of Alfonso's armies. Unfortunately, Zaida lived for but a short time after her marriage; she died in giving birth to Alfonso's only son, who was named Sancho.
Osmin was found guilty of having slept when he ought to have watched, and Zaida of having watched when she ought to have slept. But, by some strange omission, the Neapolitan code allots no punishment to such offences; and, consequently, Osmin and Zaida, to their infinite astonishment, were immediately set at liberty.
Then with dejected visage the Moor this answer made, While a thousand thoughts of sorrow his valorous breast invade: "Ah, little did I think," he said, "and little did I know That thou, my lovely Zaida, would ever treat me so; And little did I think thou wouldst have done this cruel deed And by thy changeful heart would thus have made my heart to bleed.
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